 | 1886 - 458 pagini
...; the faculty from which it proceeds lies to us in the fiction of the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | 1886 - 460 pagini
...present; the faculty from which it proceeds lies to US in the fiction of the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 712 pagini
...present; the faculty from which it proceeds lies to OB in the fiction of the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 722 pagini
...present; the faculty from which it proceeds lies to us in the fiction of the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 692 pagini
...does exist can never be a fact of our immediate experience. VOL. I. . . . The practically cognised present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own, from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is... | |
 | 1917 - 714 pagini
...Carr in his paper on ' The Moment of Experience '. ' The practicallycognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1901 - 602 pagini
...live is not an instantaneous moment but possesses a certain duration. In Professor James's words, " The practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time ". The Specious Present is to be opposed to the Atomic Present which... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1902 - 946 pagini
...succeeding time. The term is due to EG Clay, and it has been given currency by James. To quote James: 'The practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1905 - 708 pagini
...dividing it into prior and subsequent portions. Further, Professor William James puts it in this way:* — The practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
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In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. 
